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It's amazing. LeMons, Chumpcar and AER all have minimum pit stop times and that seems to work like a champ. You'd think that just using an EZ Pass with a transponder at the beginning and end of pit road would be suffice. Have T&S with a pit in timer that goes on when you cross pit in. Since you can't go faster than 60km/hr it's not hard to figure out from pit to pit out as to how long it takes. There's a thing called practice and that's what you do.
In some of those bare bones races with $500 cars, they use an EZ-Pass type sticker that goes on your helmet. Thus, they know who is in the car and when they passed pit in and pit out. Just like we do in a foot race, tri or cycling. you can go blowing past a transponder in cycling way over 60km/hr and it works. Plus it works in other series'. I've even done a few relay tri's and the transponder works in the water, on a bike and running. In running or cycling it's a cheap bib with a transponder built into it.
Seems like USAC screwed this up and like any regime change, they know better and thus, screw half the field because they are not prepared of just look at some other series and ask, "How do they do that?" Just contact a T&S company that does running. The tape a bib on the left side of the car then stick a pickup on the left side of pit road.
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